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Passerine

noun
1.
Perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless.  Synonym: passeriform bird.





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"Passerine" Quotes from Famous Books



... In Italy, linnets and sparrows are "game"; and so is everything else that wears feathers! Italy is a continuous slaughtering-ground for the migratory birds of Europe, and as such it is an international nuisance and a pest. The way passerine birds are killed and eaten in that country is a disgrace to the government of Italy, and a standing reproach to the throne. Even kings and parliaments have no right in moral or international law to permit ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


Words linked to "Passerine" :   broadbill, sparrow, wren, true sparrow, bird, jenny wren, scrub bird, lyrebird, nonpasserine, Passeriformes, scrub-bird, oscine bird, tyrannid, order Passeriformes, oscine, scrubbird


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